Quotes About Tradition

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.